This week, abortion advocates the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) and Amnesty International (AI) are teaming up with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to host the 'first-ever' briefings on 'reproductive rights' for the committees responsible for monitoring compliance with the Convention Against Torture (CAT) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).
In the News
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May 6th, 2010
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May 5th, 2010
A husband has vowed to keep his wife indoors after she became the first woman in Italy to be fined for wearing a burka in public.
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May 5th, 2010
A BNP leaflet designed to woo the black Christian vote in Barking and Dagenham has been branded 'obscene' by one of its recipients.
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May 5th, 2010
The Dudley Muslim Association today said it would proceed with plans to build a new mosque on derelict land in Dudley unless the council comes up with a 'viable' alternative.
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May 5th, 2010
A court in Lithuania has withdrawn the permit for a 'Gay pride' parade in Vilnius, citing security concerns and lack of police manpower.
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May 5th, 2010
As I grow older, I become exhausted by the need to show ever more explicit violence ? in cinema and journalism.
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May 4th, 2010
Militant atheists are trying to ban the age-old tradition of councils starting their meetings with Christian prayers by claiming it infringes the 'human rights' of non-believers.
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May 4th, 2010
Secular campaigners are launching a legal bid to outlaw the tradition of councils beginning their meetings with a Christian prayer by claiming it infringes the human rights of non-believers.
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May 4th, 2010
International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on March 23, 2010, members of al-Shabaab (an Al-Qaeda linked Islamic extremist group) executed another Somali Christian in Afgoye, Somalia.
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May 4th, 2010
The rise of Islam in Europe has been linked to a decline in Christianity and to a resulting loss of population. Does that mean that the U.S., a churchgoing nation with a healthy birth rate, is relatively immune to Islamization? Is the US protected by their demographics?